Personnel Profile
Ove Gjedde
Danish naval commander
Ove Gjedde served in a role connected with the Danish-Norwegian service during seventeenth century. This career belongs to the broader professional and institutional history of Britain’s maritime world.
He is associated with naval and colonial expeditionary service. This formed part of the way maritime service operated through discipline, knowledge, administration, exploration, or specialist expertise.
He is significant because this biography helps widen the personnel record beyond the most familiar names. Ove Gjedde belongs to the broader human history of British naval and maritime service.